Places tarajso Wants to Go

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

A more chill but no less fascinating version of the famous ancient archeological site.

Mysterious and ancient carved standing stones.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.